Posted on 10/10/2019 7:20:09 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
Go Astros!
:)
In this series, that would be the Astros.
They've driven in 10 out of 13 runs with homeruns.
Meanwhile the Yankees have four more hits than the Astros.
My point still stands.
Sorry, it wasn’t clear you even had a point.
Sorry, it wasn’t clear you even had a point.
To you, yes.
Well it’s wrong. For the last two seasons practically everyone in their lineup has been prone to prolonged slumps. I expected they’d hit a wall in the postseason. They lack starting pitching and defense, and their hitting is streaky. Sorry. Fact.
Most of the Yankee lineup was injured this year.
I expected they’d hit a wall in the postseason.
That's wrong. The Yankees have more hits, more walks, a higher batting average and they've scored more runs than the Astros in their series. The Astros have one more home run. Add to that the Yankees dominated the Twins.
What wall are you talking about??
Sorry, those are the facts.
I'm not surprised. This Yankee team didn't look all that much better than the one that lost to Boston last year.
There will be a lot of talk in New York about the need to improve their starting rotation, but I don't think that is their biggest need right now. The single biggest thing they can do to improve next year is to simply get healthier players on the roster. It is unacceptable to have a team in the playoffs with roster spots taken up by a fat slob like C.C. Sabathia and a broken-down player like Stanton who can't really play any position on the field even when he IS "healthy."
Last night’s game was a disaster IMO. 4+ hours to play a 9 inning game when only 10 runs were scored? I’m a geezer, but I remember when a typical Catfish Hunter complete game took less than 2 hours.
It’s the commercial breaks between innings. Much longer in post season so they can milk the advertising.
record the game
No thanks. I wasn’t interested enough to watch
Last night’s game saw the teams use a combined 14 pitchers. A few years ago, 14 was a record for any 9-inning game.
Next year, pitchers will have to face at least 3 batters.
1. The Yankees would win Game 1 with Tanaka outpitching Greinke.
2. They’d face Verlander twice, and beat him in one of those two starts.
3. They face Cole only once, and he’d pitch his worst game in two months.
... I would have sworn the Yankees would win the series in 5 or 6 games. And yet they LOST in 6 games ... which tells you how poorly this team is built for a long run in the playoffs.
The combined 14 pitchers was basically planned. Some teams now drop one or two starters from their five-man rotation when they get to the playoffs, and with a rainout earlier in the series these teams lost the off day for travel after Game 5. They would have played four straight days if the series went to seven games, so the managers were forced to plan their pitching rotations differently. Some managers have decided — probably correctly — that they’re better off using a committee of pitchers in a game instead of their #5 starter or their #1 or #2 starter on short rest.
Yes, Tanaka outpitched Greinke. Yes the Yankees sort of did okay against Cole, but lost. Add to that, the Yankees outplayed Verlander, they had 8 more hits in the series, and only one less run.
The Yankees lost two close games in that series, one in the bottom of the ninth and one in the tenth inning.
That was the difference.
Add to that the Yankees dominated and swept the 100+ wins on the season, Twins.
Add to that, the Yankees best pitcher was out for the playoffs".
Based on all of that evidence, I don't think that it's reasonable to conclude that the team was "poorly...built for a long run in the playoffs.
Not at all!
I do think that anybody with a long history of watching baseball would conclude that the Yankees dominated a very talented Twins team and that the Yankees lost to a very talented Astros in a close series.
I don't like that new rule. I don't think that you need it. Using many pitchers didn't turn out well for Boone.
I think that Boone overused his bullpen, which ultimately cost him game six and it would have cost him in a game seven.
That should be a lesson learned without having to add a rule.
I’ve said for years that a team built to win 100 games and draw 3 million fans is rarely the same team that is built to win 3 out of 5 games or 4 out of 7 games in a post-season series. The Atlanta Braves proved that in the 1990s. The Yankees have spent most of the last decade proving it. This team simply has too many players whose best position is DH, and too many hitters who look good on paper because they pile up offensive numbers in lopsided wins but aren’t good timely hitters.
Networks must love it, gives them time to run many extra commercials.
Post Season playoff games already add 30 additional seconds compared to regular season games between innings to get more commercials in. Jumps to 60 extra seconds in WS.
Good point, though I think a lot of the pitchers used last night came in to start an inning and therefore didn’t give any additional commercial breaks.
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